TFS 2018 associating work item with commit without pull request

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we are using git in our on-premises TFS 2018 RC2 RTW

when we checkin our code we assiciate a work item by adding a hash and a number e.g. #8635

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It is written in the docs that this should work with pull-requests. But in our case we do not neccessarly need pull-requests.

Is it possible to link commits with work items without pull-requests?

related:

Update:

I just tested this on a different git project on the same team project.

Guess what: It's working as expected. Strange there needs to be something with this git project...

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As far as I know, this link works as soon as it is pushed to the TFS-repo. Your work item should have a link to the commit. – Fabian H.
@FabianH.this is exactly what we would have expected. But this is not the case... – Daniel
Have you tried this from Visual Studio? I see in your screen shot, you are doing this at the command line and I'm wondering if VS is doing something in the background which makes it work. – tj-cappelletti
Yes. We also trief committing over Visual Studio. It does Not make a difference. – Daniel
So if you go to the links tab of work item 8635 you don't see any associated commits? – Pero P.

2 Answers

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Go to http://<yourTFSinstance>/tfs/<TeamProjectCollection>/<TeamProject>/_admin/_versioncontrol, then select the repo in question, and switch to the Options tab. Make sure the appropriate checkmark is ON:

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I've tested on my TFS 2018 RTM, and got correct behavior. You could try to upgrade your TFS 2018 RC2 to RTM version first.

And make sure after git commit -m command, you also git push the commit.

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